Divya Delhi : Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweeted, "Today, curtains down on my 18-year stint of public service, of which three years I had the privilege of serving with PM Narendra Modiji's Team Modi 2.0," on June 9, 2024, as the Modi 3.0 government prepared to take office. I didn't want to end my 18 years of public service as a losing candidate, but it happened. The tweet was deleted after a day, and the updated version conveniently blamed a “intern” for the confusion. Chandrasekhar's impassioned answer showed his displeasure at not fitting within Modi 3.0. It also showed that the 'technocrat' was not a politician who rehearsed responses. Within a year, the BJP high command surprised Kerala by appointing Chandrasekhar as its new state president. Rajeev Chandrasekhar was not the frontrunner. K. Surendran, who overstayed his mandate by two years, was expected to get another year till the 2026 state assembly elections. Other contestants were firebrand Sobha Surendran and experienced MT Ramesh. Even popular wisdom predicted that social engineering would hurt Thrissur Nair Chandrasekhar. The two Malayalis in Modi's third ministry—Suresh Gopi and George Kurian—are Nair and Syrian Christians, therefore an Ezhava/Hindu OBC candidate would have been more practical. Chandrasekhar was chosen for good reasons by the top leadership. Due to internal divisions, none of the Kerala BJP frontrunners could have functioned properly. Even K. Surendran's five-year administration was marked by conflict with the PK Krishnadas group and Sobha Surendran.